Getty Center, various images

I’ve been visiting the Getty Center for sixteen years on visits to my recently passed mother. I’ve taken hundreds of images of the place. My wife, however, had never been there so we took some time to visit on our recent trip to LA.

It’s tough to remember to look down at the Getty but in fact, the floors are all made out of limestone, some of which is intricately detailed with fossils and other remnants of its earlier life as sandstone in another time.

One of the many things that’s great about the Getty is the juxtaposition of steel siding with stone on walls and ceilings. This alcove is one of my favorite such places.

Richard Meier’s Getty architecture is quite stark so finding a wall of ivy there is almost a welcome relief.

About Richard

I’ve been publishing online in one form or another since the early days of the web. I started this site in 2003 with a self-hosted install of WordPress and more recently migrated most of the old content here.

This site primarily features photography but I’m interested in many things and you’ll see an occasional video embed or story here as well.

I use Flickr to host my photography, some of which is embedded here. I also embed other Flickr members’ work as I find and want to share it further than Flickr.